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单词 your worthiness
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Your Worthiness
2. With possessive adjective, as Your Worthiness. A title of respect or form of address given to a person of high rank or status. In later use sometimes ironic.
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c1391 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Bodl. 294) Prol. l. 50* He..bad me doo my besynesse That to his hihe worthinesse Som newe thing I scholde boke.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1938 Sire, wetis it wele, ȝoure worthines [etc.].
1455–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1455 §36. m. 21 The grete and outrageouse costes and expenses not unknowen unto your wurthynesses, which..I bare, in execucion of the said charge.
1564 Briefe Exam. sig. Bj Your worthynesse may knowe what my iudgement is.
a1607 H. Chettle Trag. Hoffman (1631) sig. C1 We know your worthinesse is experienc't in all true wisedome.
1609 T. Heywood in tr. Sallust Two Worthy & Notable Hist. Ep. Ded. Your Worthinesse.
1688 W. Scot True Hist. Families ii. Ep. Ded. I humbly crave your Worthiness excuse, This boldness of my poor unlearned Muse.
1866 W. W. Good Polit., Agric. & Commerc. Fallacies 247 When his Worthiness penned the above epistle, he may well have started with an excuse, lame as it was.
1877 Compan. Monthly Mag. Odd Fellows Jan. 370/1 ‘Jack’ had seized upon the tip of his nose, where he had ‘set his seal’ of approbation, no doubt, at his Worthy-ness' recent elevation to that high and responsible office.
1903 Outlook 19 Dec. 957/1 The one rush-bottom rocking-chair was always reserved for Her Worthiness.
1962 Traditio 18 372 A petition to an Egyptian strategos begins, ‘unlawful conduct, my Lord Prefect, is suppressed by none other than Your Worthiness’.
1994 D. Gurr Arcadia West 122 Believe me, to get a message to such a moron a simple picture is the only way to go. Allow me to show Your Worthiness.
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